Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital

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So what is the TripleHead2Go, exactly? Well, the digital version is a whole lot like the analog model, only with DVI ports all over the place. It accepts either dual-link DVI or VGA inputs, with included cables, and draws power over USB. One DVI goes in (from pretty much any major video card with a DVI output—we used a Radeon HD 3850) and three DVIs go out.

Just plug in all your monitors and you’re ready to go. You don’t need to install the Matrox software, but it has some benefits. You can do all the standard multi-monitor stuff with it, like configure the layout of your displays (3×1, 1×3, and other options if you have more monitors hooked up), force dialog boxes to appear on certain displays (such as the one the app that spawned resides in), stuff like that. There’s even a nifty bezel management feature that lets you move the images on each display over to the left or right, putting some of the image “in the bezel”, as it were. You lose some desktop space this way, but it keeps the geometry of your images uniform.

The Surround Gaming Utility is a handy bit of work. Some games will work all right with a really wide display resolution like 3840×1024, but many will not. The SGU currently detects and modifies 177 games. What it does varies from game to game, but the effect is usually pretty simple—support a really wide three-monitor spanning resolution, and keep the interface elements confined to the center monitor to keep them from distorting (and to keep your eyes from having to look left and right all the time to see vital game info). Continued…